Start with the good stuff. Chris Finwood is home. He works for a man he respects. He runs a program he admired as a kid and as a young coach. He sees mountains of potential.

Now the flipside. Finwood is in his first year as steward of an Old Dominion baseball team that's last in the Colonial Athletic Association. The Monarchs are at or near the bottom of the league in most meaningful statistical categories. Losing gnaws at him in ways he can barely describe. He inherited a program that hasn't been relevant regionally or nationally in more than a decade.